Tell me a bit about your life growing up.
I was born in North Philadelphia, as an only child on my mom’s side. My dad, I have probably 6 to 8 brothers and sisters, but on my mom’s side, I grew up an only child. It was relatively cool like, went to school, did what I needed to do, didn’t really get into trouble like that.
Then we moved into the suburbs area where I met a couple of people, did different things. But in my downtime I just fell in love with being online. Then I learned how to make music by talking to people on Discord and it turned into what you see today,
What can you tell me about your fandom for Crush40?
When I was growing up, my dad got me a console, and there was a Sonic game on there. The game had the Crush40 songs on it, and I was just immediately in love. I didn’t have any other consoles, so most I could do is go on YouTube and just listen to the rest of the Sonic songs without even playing the games yet.
Over time I just became a real huge fan, and that influenced my music in a way. […] I definitely took away the Every couple of seconds, something different is happening aspect from their music, and harmonization, for sure.
When do you feel like the “slayr sound” first started coming together?
When I dropped “FOURTH GEAR CYPHER!,” it blew up to a point I didn’t expect or could handle, so I didn’t really take advantage of that blowing up really. I just let it sit, and took my time, really. I started to develop my next project, which was Gaia, and took inspiration from Pi’erre [Bourne], from Kanye.
I wanted to make something that seemed serious, ‘cause I was making rage, Whole Lotta Red type songs — I was like, “OK, this worked, let me see if this also works.” So I took elements of Pi’erre with transitions and Kanye with orchestral vibes, and that formed my more melodic sound.